Neuroscience Seminar Series 2007-2008

All seminars at 3:00-4:00 PM in 402 BSB unless othewise noted.

[Click here for the 2003-2007 Seminar Series Schedules]

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
August 24, 2007	Matthew Feltenstein, Postdoc MUSC	Relapse: Sex Differences, Stress and Treatment
August 31, 2007	Marek Schwendt, Postdoc MUSC	RGS4 - Regulator of G-Protein Signaling in the Addicted Brain
September 6, 2007	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
September 14, 2007	Michael Fanselow, PhD UCLA	"Competition and Compensation in the Circuitry Mediating Contextual Fear"
September 21, 2007	Thomas Murray, PhD Creighton Univ School of Medicine	"Neuronal Responses to Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Activators: From Neurotoxicity to Development"
September 28, 2007	Greg Quirk, PhD Ponce School of Medicine Ponce Puerto Rico	"Overcoming our Fears: Neural Mechanism of Fear Extinction"
October 4, 2007	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
October 12, 2007	Vance Lemmon, PhD University of Miami	"Hunting for Regeneration Associated Genes Using High Content Screening"
October 19, 2007	Judson Chandler, PhD MUSC	"Central Role of the Post-synaptic Density in Adaptive Responses to Alcohol"
October 26, 2007	Francois Georges PhD Victor Segalen University Nat’l Center of the Scientific Resch Bordeaux France	"The Infralimbic Cortex Controls the VTA DA Neurons via the BNST: Gating by Cannabinnoids"
November 1, 2007	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
November 9, 2007	No Seminar
November 16, 2007	Cancelled
November 23, 2007	Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30, 2007	Sidney Strickland, PhD The Rockefeller Univ, New York	"Proteases, the Extracellular Matrix and Neurodegeneration"
December 6, 2007	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
December 14, 2007	Cancelled
December 21, 2007	William Tyor, MD MUSC	"Interferon-alpha Causes Cognitive Dysfunction in HIV Encephalitis"
December 28, 2007	Christmas Holiday
January 3, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
January 11, 2008	John Mantsch, PhD Marquette University, Milwaukee	"Glucocorticoid-Dependent Neuroplasticity: Fueling the Cycle of Stress and Addiction"
January 18, 2008	Kurt F. Hauser, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University	"Opiates Exacerbate HIV-1 Neuropathology: Neuronal Injury and Synaptic Losses Driven by Inflammatory Signals from Gila"
January 25, 2008	Carl Weitlauf, PhD MUSC	"Ethanol Sensitivity of Glutamatergic and GABAergic Transmission in the Rat Prefrontal Cortex"
February 1, 2008	Cristina Backman, PhD NIH/NIDA	"Cre Mediated Deletion of PTEN in Dopamine Cells Causes Hypertrophy: What are the Implications for Parkinson's Disease?"
February 7, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
February 15, 2008	Kurt F. Hauser, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University	"Opiates Exacerbate HIV-1 Neuropathology: Neuronal Injury and Synaptic Losses Driven by Inflammatory Signals from Gila"
February 22, 2008	Cancelled
February 29, 2008	David Fitzpatrick, PhD Duke University	"Learning to See: Rapid, Experience-Dependent Development of Direction Selective Responses in Visual Cortex"
March 6, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
March 14, 2008	Frontier Day
March 21, 2008	Cancelled
March 28, 2008	3:00pm - Chitra Venugopal Grad Student, MUSC	"The Cytoplasmic domain of BACE is involved in its localization"
April 3, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
April 11, 2008	3:00pm - Kat Potter Grad Student, MUSC 3:30pm - Tim Whitfield Grad Student, MUSC	"GDNF and Alcohol Withdrawal Seizure Susceptibility: An Update" "The Cytoplasmic Domain of BACE is Involved in its Localization"
April 18, 2008	3:00pm - Jason Lockrow Grad Student, MUSC 3:30pm - Bailey Glen Grad Student, MUSC	"The Role of Oxidative Stress in a Model for Progressive Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neuron Degeneration" "Dysbindin Null Mice and Hippocampal Plasticity: Possible Correlates of a Genetic Model of schizophrenia"
April 25, 2008	3:00pm - Linnea Freeman Grad Student, MUSC	"Effects of a High Fat Diet on Hippocampal Morphology"
May 1, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI
May 9, 2008	No seminar scheduled
May 16, 2008	3:00pm - Greg Sartor Grad Student, MUSC 3:30 - Khaled Moussawi Grad Student, MUSC
May 23, 2008	3:00 - Matthew Pava Grad Student, MUSC 3:30 - Kenny Abernathy Grad Student, MUSC
May 30, 2008	3:00 - Adrian Sproul Grad Student, MUSC 3:30 - Christina Demos Grad Student, MUSC
June 5, 2008	Grand Rounds Plenary Speaker	809 SEI